Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-18
WEATHER AND CROPS.
A Eumber of tho Wheat States Report g
Very Light Yield, Kansas Waking
the Worst Showing.
Sections IF tho COUNTRY, Especially
III tho Cotton Belt.
Crop summary,

CHICAGO, LII, July 1.-THE following
summary will be printed in this weeks
edition of the farmers Review. The
drouth throuehcu. the northwestern
states IS iLjurirg a!l crops more or less.
Corn, although materially damaged so fer,
is commencing 70 show the effects OF the
! dry season and must suffer consid-
ersbly i rain does not fell soon and in
! sufficient quantities. AS 9 result Of the
drouth. the est crop is ripening
| too fast ard will hardly make
/ three-fOurths OF an average crop il the
drOuth ccntinues. Estimates OF the
average Yield OF winter wheat il the
different states, compiled from reports Of
ttrezhiDg and calculations OF PROBABLE
returns, are as follows:
! Sixteen counties in Illinois, / ) bushels;
! this il & falling eff of bushels as com
pared with our report OF last week;
I Morgan county reports 8 yield SIS high as
% bushels, and Pope IS lOI as 5 bushels.
Twelve counties il Indisns give IA
average of > bushels pec acre. -Four
Kansas counties report q We'd OF -
bushels, but Others report returns Es git
to very poor; the yield OF tie Who'll sta'e
j. undoubtedly poor. Four counties IN
Kentucky report II bushels Three
Michigan counties report Il bushels. /
Eleven counties Ia Missouri report
an average yieid cf l9a bushels. {
Our Ol!o reports indicate e
fair TO good yield Cf wheat .
bpt figures are not given. Reports from /
Wisconsin place the yield ~ trCuu four /
teen to twenty bushels per acre. Z Il
ports or the condition Of spring wheat .
are SIS follows: Nineteen counties il .
Iowa place The average a. - per cen. /
Carroll Casz, Clayton, Howard, Iowa,
KGgkUk and Madison counties can not
stGte % average. t0C crop being slmlS1
totally destroyed by insects. Eleven
counties il Mnresots place The condition
II Il per cent. Twelve counties in y
brqsEa plGCa the sv2rsga titiOn ct s.
per CGLJ, and seven COUNTIES IT, Dakota
So per cent. Insects are doing consider
able damage in some localities to corr,
the chinCh bugs having - we feared at
tscbed this crop after harvesting Of
winter wheat. The average condition OF
crops Gs calculated from cur reports re
ceivCd last week 10 different states is IS
follows: twelve counties in Illinois re-
port an average condition Of 81 per cent.
Twelve IGdisnA counties, SO per cent.
Seven counties in OaiO, 90 per cent, -Four
teen Missouri counties renOr. condition
IS hlGl Is lCG psr cent, while thirteea
counties N Nebraska place il al l0i per
cent. ara twgn,y-!CIr counties in Iowa
best these figures win an average OF l03 Z
per cent. Fourteen counties in Minnesota ,
report condition 81 go per cent. and seven
counties in Wisconsin report like Gyar-
lge. Dakota counties lead the whole list
Win GG average OF l20 per cent. SIX
Michigan counties place their average a.
Ul per cent. apd kentucky cOun-
les reporting this week at 100
3tg cent. Nine untJes in Kansas IT,
2ort the average condition at I02 per
,enc.
Pastures are SUIT ring from lack Of
ala. Ia
Potatoes and apples 10 not promise I
much more than hlf cop. Hay hardly
caches that figure.